Melissa Gorga has finally "arrived"! It's a Real Housewife rite of passage to record a song and land a book deal. Melissa already tackled the music world (and was quite the overachiever by Housewife standards and recorded more than one) and now she's officially an author!

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Tweeted a few days ago, teasing that she had HUGE news to rub in Teresa Giudice's face share soon. We aren't always the patient type, but we finally received the press release announcing her new book, "LOVE, ITALIAN STYLE: The Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriage".

Mrs. Poison explains the whys and whats of her new tome: “I can’t tell you how many times Joe and I are approached by fans asking how they can have a marriage like ours." Adding, “A great marriage doesn’t just happen. It’s a job. I work on my marriage every single day. In LOVE, ITALIAN STYLE, I’ll share the story of my life with Joe, the secrets of how I keep it sexy and real, and how pleasing my husband informs and influences every other aspect of my life. I’ll give readers practical strategies on how to strengthen their marriage, amp up the passion, and the secrets that make my marriage as sexy and hot as it is warm and loving.”

The book is set for release next Fall, just in time for your Xmas wish list. I wonder if it'll bring some competition between Melissa and Caroline Manzo, who is also releasing a new book in March.

TELL US – WILL YOU BUY MELISSA'S BOOK? DO YOU THINK HER CAST MATES ARE JEALOUS?

Check out the full press release below!

New York, NY– St. Martin’s Press has purchased the rights to LOVE, ITALIAN STYLE: The Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriageby Melissa Gorga with Val Frankel. Melissa is known to millions of American’s as the fan favorite and breakout star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. The deal for world rights was negotiated by SMP executive editor Kathy Huck with Alex Glass of Trident Media and Jessica Stark and Mehran Farhat of the MF Stark Group.

“I can’t tell you how many times Joe and I are approached by fans asking how they can have a marriage like ours,” says Melissa. Adding, “A great marriage doesn’t just happen. It’s a job. I work on my marriage every single day. In LOVE, ITALIAN STYLE, I’ll share the story of my life with Joe, the secrets of how I keep it sexy and real, and how pleasing my husband informs and influences every other aspect of my life. I’ll give readers practical strategies on how to strengthen their marriage, amp up the passion, and the secrets that make my marriage as sexy and hot as it is warm and loving.”

Melissa is the star of Bravo TV’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey. She and her husband Joe Gorga, a successful real estate developer in New Jersey, have been married for eight years, and have three beautiful children — Antonia, 7, Gino, 5, and Joey, 2. While it’s all about family for Melissa, over the past two seasons fans have seen her maintain traditional Italian values at home with a modern lifestyle that allows her to follow her passion. In just shy of a year, she has turned her dream of becoming a recording artist into a reality with multiple songs breaking the top ten Dance/R&B charts on iTunes and she is just getting started. While starring on a hit reality TV show, launching a singing career, juggling three active children and a charismatic husband, this sassy Italian still keeps it all together and manages to make it look easy.

Collaborator Val Frankel is a bestselling novelist, and an award-winning journalist. She’s worked with high-profile celebrities on fiction and non-fiction titles, and has written her own memoirs It’s Hard Not to Hate You and This Is the New Happy.